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The combination of maps on different scales, used notably in Peter Apian’s Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1545), made it possible to both represent and position diverse administrative entities: countries, counties, regions, provinces. Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, several major series of European atlases included these compilations of ...
View a map of Europe in 1453 - a time when the Italian Renaissance is beginning.
This chapter is organized in four main sections reflecting broad types of maps for which projections were useful in the European Renaissance: world maps (and globes), nautical charts, regional maps, and celestial maps.
18 Μαρ 2019 · This essay draws a cultural history of cartography and cosmography focusing on some of the transformative processes and changing functions that characterized these fields of knowledge, using European sources, over a period of nearly four centuries, from 1250 until...
Renaissance cartographers devised maps of Europe in the shape of a queen, decorated all manner of geographical books with images of the ‘noble’ continent lording it over her ‘sisters’, and covered the margins and cartouches of their maps with the images of European superiority.
Cartography in the European Renaissance treats the period from 1450 to 1650, long considered the most important in the history of European mapping. This period witnessed a flowering in the production of maps comparable to that in the fields of literature and fine arts.
01A Fourteenth Century Europe 1. 01A Orientations 1. 01A Orientations 2. 02 Fourteenth-Century Europe II: Christianity, the Church, the Papacy. 03 Universities and the World of Learning. 04 Origins of the Humanist Movement. 05 Italian Cities in the Fifteenth Century. 06 Italian Cities in the 15th Century II. 07 Renaissance in the Visual Arts.
